San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project Interview with ...

JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Yes, and it was after two o’clock.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: He made people leave. I just ushered people in the back.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: He got up and he said, “Everybody get the fuck out! Right now!”
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: It got a little crazy later.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Oh, my God! And everybody went. You never saw anything like
it. Do you remember when the body was found out in front, and the cops were here that night,
Eddie and those guys?
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: No. We weren’t part of that one.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Apparently, there was a shooting in the club downstairs; there’s a
disco below us in the basement, the entrance is on the other side. And I guess they didn’t want to
call the cops until they removed the body. Well, they managed to remove it and put it in front of
our window.
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: And prop it up like he’d just had a few too many of Tosca’s famous
cocktails!
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Laura and George were leaving, and they said goodbye, and then
they came back in and said, “There’s a body lying out there.” And I’ve got four drunken off-duty
cops sitting here at the bar. As soon as they heard that—they can hardly move—and I said, “You
stay where you are.” I called the station.
MIGUEL PENDÁS: What year was that?
JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: I want to say it was like ’92, maybe. Yeah, I remember it.
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: And people were leaving and stepping over the body.
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